Ralf Lenke et al 2002 J. Opt. A: Pure Appl. Opt. 4 309 doi:10.1088/1464-4258/4/3/316
Ralf Lenke1,2, Ulrich Mack1 and Georg Maret1
Show affiliationsThe 'glory' results from light scattering of single, sub-millimetre to millimetre-sized spheres in the exact backscattering direction. The so-called coherent backscattering by disordered media is the intensity enhancement in the very same direction due to the interference between each light path and its reversed path. This pair of paths always exists in multiple-scattering media. The two phenomena have very similar properties, which will be studied and compared in more detail, experimentally as well as by numerical calculations.
82.70.-y Disperse systems; complex fluids
78.35.+c Brillouin and Rayleigh scattering; other light scattering
Soft matter, liquids and polymers
Issue 3 (May 2002)
Received 6 June 2001, in final form 10 September 2001
Published 5 April 2002
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